Display an envelope icon, like Stack Overflow pages
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#1 Display an envelope icon, like Stack Overflow pages
At the top of each Stack Overflow (and similar sites) page there is an envelope icon which turns solid if you have any unread responses to your input. It would be nice to have this available in the status bar alongside the score and badge count,
This is actually harder to implement than it sounds as if it should be. This is because the user score data is retrieved using the "flair" mechanism, (e.g. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair/139977.html ) to aim to minimise the amount of data required from the server. However, this mechanism doesn't include details of whether there are new responses. In order to implement this feature, a main page needs to be retrieved. While this is not terribly difficult, it will take some time to get sorted. Watch this space.